Motor insurance: claims by persons injured abroad

In Howe v Motor Insurers’ Bureau [2016] Lloyd’s Rep IR 359 Stewart J discussed a series of issues of law and procedure relating to an English claimant injured in a motor accident in France by an unidentified driver driving an untraced vehicle. Soon afterwards the Supreme Court reached its decision in Moreno v Motor Insurers’ Bureau [2016] Lloyd’s Rep IR 99, which affected a significant part of the reasoning in Howe.

Since Moreno, Howe has been back to the Court of Appeal on two issues, both of some significance for the motor insurance regime: Howe v Motor Insurers’ Bureau [2017] EWCA Civ 302 and Howe v Motor Insurers Bureau (No 2) [2017] EWCA Civ 932.